Once upon a time, this newsgroup would be bouncing up and down with joy
with such a sustained Easterly in December.

Now, as it only seems capable of producing the same as a cool North
Westerly, it's strangely quiet.

On 17 Dec, 20:31, Chris Smith wrote:
Once upon a time, this newsgroup would be bouncing up and down with joy
with such a sustained Easterly in December.

Now, as it only seems capable of producing the same as a cool North
Westerly, it's strangely quiet.

If the easterlies were from a high further north a true scandi high so
as to speak rather than a Euro high. This could feed deep cold air
from Russia towards the UK with sub 528 dam air and cold pools. As
these would flow over the waters of the North Sea frequent showers
would push inland. Where as at the moment the cold air has little
depth over the UK and is unlikely to produce any snow but more likely
grey cloudy days, not very exciting.

Simon (South Yorkshire)

Trouble is Chris, easterlies alone are not enough, its the origin and track
of that easterly thats important. If you look at the source of the current
one, it seems to start as a Westerly around the top of the high and then
tracks round the high to become our Easterly, never really tapping into any
exceptionally cold airmass.
I think we would need an elongated high running SW/NE so that the source
airflow could originate from deeper into Siberia, but who knows in these
days of Global temperature rise.
Regards.
Len.
"Chris Smith" wrote in message
...
Once upon a time, this newsgroup would be bouncing up and down with joy
with such a sustained Easterly in December.

Now, as it only seems capable of producing the same as a cool North
Westerly, it's strangely quiet.

"GKN" wrote in message
. uk...
Trouble is Chris, easterlies alone are not enough, its the origin and
track of that easterly thats important. If you look at the source of the
current one, it seems to start as a Westerly around the top of the high
and then tracks round the high to become our Easterly, never really
tapping into any exceptionally cold airmass.
I think we would need an elongated high running SW/NE so that the source
airflow could originate from deeper into Siberia, but who knows in these
days of Global temperature rise.
Regards.
Len.
"Chris Smith" wrote in message
...
Once upon a time, this newsgroup would be bouncing up and down with joy
with such a sustained Easterly in December.

Now, as it only seems capable of producing the same as a cool North
Westerly, it's strangely quiet.
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Even if the track were better Northern Finland was above freezing today and
St Petersburg was also above freezing so I think we are looking at Siberia
these days!
Dave

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On 17 Dec, 20:31, Chris Smith wrote:
Once upon a time, this newsgroup would be bouncing up and down with joy
with such a sustained Easterly in December.

Now, as it only seems capable of producing the same as a cool North
Westerly, it's strangely quiet.

If the easterlies were from a high further north a true scandi high so
as to speak rather than a Euro high. This could feed deep cold air
from Russia towards the UK with sub 528 dam air and cold pools. As
these would flow over the waters of the North Sea frequent showers
would push inland. Where as at the moment the cold air has little
depth over the UK and is unlikely to produce any snow but more likely
grey cloudy days, not very exciting.

Yep. Meteorologists used to - and maybe still do - distinguish between
Polar Continental and Arctic Continental air masses (not very happily
named but the former had the source of its air in Central Europe and the
latter in Russia). The less cold type has always been the more common.
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